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First into the 1944 race for Tennessee Governor last week went the name of a hillbilly minstrel, Roy Acuff, 40, of Nashville. Fiddler Acuff insisted that his friends had put in his name, that he was still undecided whether to run. He thereupon resumed his fiddling, while his friends hoped that Memphis' Boss Ed Crump burned...
Acuff, son of an oldtime fiddler, was a second-string radio singer a few years ago, when Columbia Recording Corp., trying to trace an old English ballad, The Great Speckled Bird, found that Acuff knew it and hundreds more. Columbia signed him up. Since then, he has made four motion pictures (two still unreleased) and barrowfuls of money. Recently he put down $25,000 cash for an old mansion on Nashville's fashionable Hillsboro Road...
...surface it was a battle of personalities: two generals contending for the role of first fiddler. But the same contest was settling the future shape of France...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
...Bruch: Concerto in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting, with Nathan Milstein; Columbia; 6 sides). One part fireworks, two parts schmaltz, no intellectual bitters, well shaken by a brilliant fiddler and guaranteed to warm the spirits of any fiddle...